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Re: VIM not launching: libperl.dylib path problem

... The binary from macvim.swdev.org won t run if you have perl 5.8 installed; you have to build it yourself (instructions at macvim.swdev.org). Emily

Message 1 of 6
, Apr 14, 2003

At 8:31 PM -0700 on 4/13/03, Richard Hood wrote:

>VIM is not working for me, either in GUI version or in the terminal. I
>think I may know why.
>
>When I launch VIM, the console reports:
>
>dyld: /Users/dad/.Trash/vim/Vim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim can't open
>library: /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/libperl.dylib (No such file
>or directory, errno = 2)
>
>I recently upgraded to PERl 5.8.0 and the libperl.dylib is located in:
> /Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/libperl.dylib

The binary from macvim.swdev.org won't run if you have perl 5.8 installed;
you have to build it yourself (instructions at macvim.swdev.org).

Emily

Ben Fowler

... Is it possible to run applications at all once they are in the Trash? Ben -- Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you

Message 2 of 6
, Apr 24, 2003

At 5:06 am -0500 2003-04-14, Emily Jackson wrote:

>At 8:31 PM -0700 on 4/13/03, Richard Hood wrote:
>
>
>>VIM is not working for me, either in GUI version or in the terminal. I
>>think I may know why.
>>
>>When I launch VIM, the console reports:
>>
>>dyld: /Users/dad/.Trash/vim/Vim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim can't open
>>library: /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/libperl.dylib (No such file
>>or directory, errno = 2)
>>
>>I recently upgraded to PERl 5.8.0 and the libperl.dylib is located in:
>> /Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/libperl.dylib
>
>The binary from macvim.swdev.org won't run if you have perl 5.8 installed;
>you have to build it yourself (instructions at macvim.swdev.org).

Is it possible to run applications at all once they are in the Trash?

Ben
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... Unfortunately, yes. (Upgrading an application and forgetting to empty the Trash before opening a document owned by that app results in the old version

Message 3 of 6
, Apr 24, 2003

At 8:59 AM +0100 on 4/24/03, Ben Fowler wrote:

>At 5:06 am -0500 2003-04-14, Emily Jackson wrote:
>>At 8:31 PM -0700 on 4/13/03, Richard Hood wrote:
>>
>>
>>>VIM is not working for me, either in GUI version or in the terminal. I
>>>think I may know why.
>>>
>>>When I launch VIM, the console reports:
>>>
>>>dyld: /Users/dad/.Trash/vim/Vim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim can't open
>>>library: /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/libperl.dylib (No such file
>>>or directory, errno = 2)
>>>
>>>I recently upgraded to PERl 5.8.0 and the libperl.dylib is located in:
>>> /Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/libperl.dylib
>>
>>The binary from macvim.swdev.org won't run if you have perl 5.8 installed;
>>you have to build it yourself (instructions at macvim.swdev.org).
>
>Is it possible to run applications at all once they are in the Trash?

Unfortunately, yes. (Upgrading an application and forgetting to empty the
Trash before opening a document "owned" by that app results in the old
version being launched. :-\)

Emily

Ben Fowler

... When I have done something like that, the system hasn t let me; now maybe I haven t tried hard enough, but my suggestion is that the error message might be

When I have done something like that, the system hasn't let me;
now maybe I haven't tried hard enough, but my suggestion is
that the error message might be bogus.

Is Vim working for you now? If so, do you think that you understand
what is going on.

Ben.

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... Yes. It may not be possible to double-click them, but sometimes the system itself will mistakenly launch something in the Trash (e.g. by clicking a dock

Message 5 of 6
, Apr 26, 2003

> Is it possible to run applications at all once they are in the Trash?

Yes. It may not be possible to double-click them, but sometimes the
system itself will mistakenly launch something in the Trash (e.g. by
clicking a dock icon. This happened to me recently with the release of
the latest Safari beta.)